效率 (xiàolǜ) means Efficiency. Below are 6 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他的工作 效率 很高。
Tā de gōngzuò xiàolǜ hěn gāo.
He works very efficiently.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 效率
这个办法提高了 效率 。
Zhège bànfǎ tígāo le xiàolǜ.
This method has improved efficiency.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 效率
效率 和公平并不一定对立。
Xiàolǜ hé gōngpíng bìng bù yídìng duìlì.
Efficiency and fairness are not necessarily opposed.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 对立
借助工具，工作 效率 提高了很多。
Jièzhù gōngjù, gōngzuò xiàolǜ tígāo le hěn duō.
With the help of tools, efficiency improved a great deal.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 借助
如何提高 效率 是当前的重要课题。
Rúhé tígāo xiàolǜ shì dāngqián de zhòngyào kètí.
How to improve efficiency is an important issue at present.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 课题
这台机器经过改良， 效率 高了不少。
Zhè tái jīqì jīngguò gǎiliáng, xiàolǜ gāo le bù shǎo.
After improvement this machine is considerably more efficient.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 改良
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How is 效率 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 效率 (xiàolǜ, "Efficiency"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 效率 an HSK word?
Yes — 效率 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
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